MOTORISTS travelling through Alcester were blitzed as part of a special police operation this weekend. A total of 17 vehicles were seized and seven people arrested as police conducted random number plate checks to catch criminals in an operation run jointly by Warwickshire Police, neighbouring forces and other organisation including HM Revenue and Customs and the DVLA. The operation, based on the Birmingham Road on Saturday (February 7), was the biggest of its kind to ...»
AT A GLANCE you'd be forgiven for mistaking these buildings for Stratford's best known landmarks - but they are in fact on the other side of the world.
The incredibly accurate replicas of Shakespeare's Birthplace and Anne Hathaway's cottage were painstakingly planned and built during the 1970s thousands of miles away in Western Australia.
They were constructed by retired British engineer, Leo Fowler, to the exact measurements of the originals and using traditional techniques at ...»
A MAN from Stratford who fell to his death from a multi-storey car park had been questioned by police on the day of his death, it has been revealed.
Police this week identified the man as 55-year-old James Francis Costello, of St Mary's Street, and confirmed they questioned him at Leamington police station shortly before his death but did not say what about.
Mr Costello, a freelance journalist and writer, died from multiple injuries on ...»
CONTROVERIAL plans for a housing development in the town will be the first to test the resolve of a council decision to protect a number of sites until at least next year.
Last week a district council cross-party committee confounded recommendations of officers and refused to lift a ban on large housing developments or allow development on three 'reserve' sites in the district.
The move means the sites should be protected until at least 2011, ...»
FOR cabbie Jeremy Slater-Brown a court ruling upholding the council's refusal to renew his license and hit him with a bill for £4,000 costs is the final insult in a 'ridiculous and pointless' saga.
Last year the Observer reported how Mr Slater-Brown, a cabbie in the district for 15 years, was denied a renewal of his license because he handed his documents in just hours late.
The council's licensing department told him he must seek ...»
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